A pleasing compliment has been paid by the Italian Government to Admiral Lord Jellicoe's book, The Crisis of the Naval War." A private edition of it has been translated into Italian for circulation among the officers of the Italian Navy. we Messrs. Scribner's, the American publishers, have evolved a novel method of advertising. Whey recently published a book called His Children," by Mr. Arthur Train. A small grama-phone was sent by the Scribner's to booksellers, and when they turned it on it delivered a lecture on the contents of Mr. Train's book and on the merit and quality of those contents, Mr. Somerset Maugham, returning from the Orient vid New York recently, told an American interviewer: "I seldom write while travelling, but I have made a mass of notes which will some day be hurled at an unsuspecting public in the shape of short stories, a new play, or perhaps two new plays, and a novel. I spend quite a while collecting my material beforehand, and now I am on my way home, where, for the next year and a half, I shall shut myself in my library and work. Then I expect to go off again for about a year, This is a regular system upon which I
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